Can flood resilience be measured?

This publication highlights a key challenge for any resilience-building efforts: if resilience cannot be empirically verified, how do you empirically measure whether a community is more resilient as a result of your work?

The document presents a framework around which can be build a measurement tool for resilience. The framework is based on four separate properties related to community resilience:

• robustness (ability to withstand a shock);
• redudancy (functional diversity);
• resourcefulness (ability to mobilize when threatened);
• rapidity (ability to contain losses and recover in a timely manner).